# Eight questions, and where each one stands.

> Each question gets its own page. As findings arrive, the working answer on that page is rewritten and dated, so each page shows where the answer stands today.

1. How do varied interpretations of business purpose influence corporate action in fragile societies? (WP1, John Katsos)
2. How are corporate social purpose initiatives understood and evaluated by local communities? (WP1, Jason Miklian)
3. How do European regulators set the corporate purpose agenda, and to what ends? (WP1, John Katsos)
4. What societal ventures do companies deliver, and how do they land on communities? (WP2, Angelika Rettberg)
5. What do CEOs, boards and country managers actually decide, and why? (WP2, Angelika Rettberg)
6. Where is the corporate purpose agenda gender sensitive, and where is it not? (WP2, Jamal Maalouf)
7. Can heightened social purpose improve a firm's strategy in fragile settings? (WP3, Sarah Cechvala)
8. What does an expanded stakeholder theory tell us about grand challenges? (WP3, Sarah Cechvala)

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URL: https://stakesproject.org/project/questions/
Language: en
Updated: 2026-08-02

Supported by the Research Council of Norway, project 353416 (FRIPRO). Hosted at the Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE/SUM), University of Oslo, 2025 to 2029. CC BY 4.0.